Against his better judgment, Brooklyn Nets forward Michael Porter Jr. maintained that professional women’s basketball players could not beat skilled teenage boys in a hypothetical game.
In response to Lonzo Ball claiming on the Ball in the Family podcast that, as a ninth grader, he would be “going crazy” on the court against WNBA players, Porter took it a step further, insisting he could be dominant as an eighth grader, based on “real-life experience.”
“I’ma go, probably, 8th grade because I have real experience doing this ’cause I played my sisters,” he said. “They went to University of Missouri, and I was still a young dude, and they had me playing on the scout team, and they had a few WNBA players on their team, like, Sophie Cunningham, and a couple others. I think I was in the 7th or 8th grade going dumb. So, I have real-life experience.”
“I wish this would stop being a conversation ‘cause it should be common sense, but it’s just not,” Porter added.
The Nets forward also admitted he “did get in trouble talking about this,” possibly in reference to his comments while on stream with PlaqueBoyMax in August.
Porter seemed to take exception to Max saying the McDonald’s All-American boys basketball team would defeat the Team USA women’s team by “about 10” points.
“Man, if the WNBA played the McDonald’s All-American boys high school players, I’m not even going to hold you bro,” he said. “Me, Trae Young, Deandre Ayton, Gary Trent Jr., P.J. Washington, if we played the WNBA All-Stars, no disrespect bro. I’m not even going to say.”
While Porter may believe that WNBA players do not stack up to their male counterparts on the court, he apparently heard that his team cannot touch the New York Liberty when it comes to selling tickets at the Barclays Center.
“Honestly, in Brooklyn, I think more people pull up to their games than our games, from what I heard,” he said at 16:06 mark. “They won a championship a year or two ago. So, they said it’s poppin’ over there.”
The conversation starts at the one-hour mark.